Fill in the gaps with prepositions.

-to look … to the journey

- to be piled … the step

- to look … at asters

- to be inclined … think

- to speak … her

- to stack … the suitcases

- to stuff … sb’s pockets

- to jerk …

- to give … the ticket

- to be arrested … some feeling

- to turn to look … each other

Be ready to discuss the following topics.

1) Nan and Felicity’s departure.

2) Mor’s discovering.

3) The scene of declaration of love.

1. Summarize all events and introduce a short adaptation of this chapter.(Use simple language, as if you are adapting the text for the students of the 1-2 courses.)

Chapter 10

Find the following words and word combinations in the text. Remember the situations where they occur. Give synonyms to them.

- the unprecedented degree of dreariness

- to be insane

- to create a stir

- to have cracking

- to do a lot of good

- to look sound

- to be a considerable painter

- a scrutiny of the picture

- to take a weight off sb

- to be bond to do smth

 

Answer the following questions. Use the active vocabulary from the book.

1) What is the day of the House Match?

2) What happened during five days since Nan’s departure? How did Mor feel that morning?

3) Whose arrival created a stir? Why?

4) What were traditional events of the House Match day?

5) What matters did Tim Burke and Mor discuss?

6) What present did Tim reward Donald with?

7) What made Mor feel pain? Why?

8) Why did the party move to Demoyte’s house?

9) What way was the portrait valued?

10)What suggestion did Rain make? Was Mor surprised? Why?

3. Translate the following extract in a proper manner from English into Russian

“When Mor looked at the picture... -…he felt a deep pain of longing and regret”.

4. Say if the following statements are true or false:

1) Mor thought that it was foolish to make the declaration.

2) Nobody noticed Rain’s arrival at the cricket field.

3) Tim Burke presented Donald a gold ring.

4) Mor understood that Rain was a bad artist.

5) Donald always looked more grown-up in the context of something that he could do well.

Roleplay the dialogue between the party at Demoyte’s house while they were discussing the picture. Use your own vocabulary to make it more prolonged.

Be ready to discuss the following topics.

1) The House Match day.

2) Mor and Rain’s conversation.

3) Rain’s picture.

Make up a short summary of the chapter.

Chapter 11

Find the following words and word combinations in the chapter. Remember the situations where they occur. Give synonyms to them.

- to seem imminent

- to cover smth in three bounds

- a sort of triumph

- to release sb from a spell

- a sense of vigor

- to make a rueful face

- a piercing sound

- to confront sb

- to greet the eyes of sb

- to have no earthy reason

Answer the following questions.

1) What preparations did Mor make? Did the weather resemble his inner mood?

2) Why were Mor and Rain breathless? Why didn’t Rain enter the house?

3) When did Rain begin to feel ’’like this’’? And Mor?

4) Why did Rain stay at Mor’s house?

5) Why was Mor petrified with amazement when he opened a front door?

6) What was the spectacle which greeted the eyes of Nan like?

Translate in a proper manner from English into Russian.

“It was a quater past nine...-… It was now almost totally dark outside”.

Search the dictionary for some expressions with the following words.

- to betray

- to cheat

- divorce

- adulter

Make up your own sentences with them.

Explain and develop the following ideas from the text.

“Now, however, although Mor had no expectation of joy from her (Rain’s) coming, he was in an agony lest she should not come’.

“I am sorry. I ought not to have asked you to dine or said yes to your invitation. No more need be said. Please pardon my part in all this”.

“Mor felt, it is fate, it is not our will. We have both struggled against it. But it has been too strong”.

‘If our feelings are not clear now, they will never be clear. If there is something called being in love, then we are in love”.

Be ready to discuss the following topics.

1) Mor’s preparations to the private party.

2) Rain’s courage to come.

3) Nan’s appearing.

4) Weather.

Retell the chapter with the help of the active vocabulary.

Chapter 12

Find the following word combinations in the chapter. Remember the situations where they occur. Give synonyms to them.

- to be disquieted at sth

- to find smb palpably in the wrong

- fidelity

- to conceal smb distress from sb

- a condition of mental turmoil

- to adjust the appearance

- to be in extremis

- to trail away into a wail

- the brim of sth

- to whimper at the idiocy of sth

- a little caper

 

Answer the following questions. Use the active vocabulary.

1) How did Nan discover Mor’s affair? What was her reaction like?

2) Did Nan expect to see a guilty pair in her house? Why did she turn and run?

3) Where did Nan go? Why?

4) Why did Tim lie to Nan? What was his reaction to Nan’s visit like? Why?

5) Why did Nan feel desperately to stay and talk to Tim?

6) What happened when Nan came back home? What did Nan and Mor speak about?

7) What did Nan worry when the nightmare was at an end?

Translate the following extract in a proper manner from English into Russian.

“It was a quarter past nine...-… It was now almost totally dark outside”.

Explain and develop the following ideas from the text.

“She had never in her life allowed Bill to cause her real unhappiness”.

“The real pain after all was not that the world had fallen into little pieces. That was a relief from pain. It was rather that the world remained, whole, ordinary, and relentlessly to be lived in … She would cope with this”.

“You’ve got yourself into a sentimental state about this girl. All right. There’s nothing terrible about that. But whatever there is to it, now you must just stop. Your own good sense must tell you what to do here and how to do it”.

Be ready to discuss the following topics.

1) Nan at Tim Burke’s house.

2) Conversation between Nan and Mor.

Make up a short summary of the chapter. Use the active vocabulary from the book.

Chapter 13

Translate the following phrases and search the text to find and speak about the situations where they occur.

- denomination

- to be fiercely and impenitently intact

- to dislocate sb’s love

- to release sb from a spell

- a secluded meeting place

- to be a part of madness

- to be deeply rooted in sb’s own life

- to want regardless of convention

- to alter the atmosphere

- a patient expression

 

2. a) Answer the following questions.

1) Why was Mor sitting in the school chapel if he was known not having religious faith?

2) What was the chapel like? How were the functions organized?

3) What was Mor thinking about in the chapel?

4) What was a great favourite with the school?

5) Why did Mor ask Rain to come to the squash courts?

6) Whom did Mor meet at the court? Why? What was the matter of their talk?

7) What puzzled Bledyard? Why?

 

b) Say if the following sentences are true or false:

1) Mor was sitting in the temple.

2) Mor was thinking about Rain.

3) Rain refused to see Mor again.

4) Mor was full of anger with Nan.

5) Evvy was a good talker. His service was interesting and absorbing.

6) Bledyard was in love with Rain.

7) Mor agreed to break up relations with Rain.

8) Mor and Bledyard went to school as it was getting dark.

Translate in a proper manner from English into Russian.

“Sitting now in the chapel … - …His anger blazed up, terminating the reverie”

Explain and develop the following ideas from the text.

“Sometimes, it is unavoidably our duty to attempt some sort of judgment and then the suspension of judgment is not charity but the fear of being judged in return”

“Happiness? … Do you imagine that you, or anyone, has some sort of right to happiness? … There is such a thing as respect for reality. You are living on dreams now, dreams of happiness, dreams of freedom. But in all this you consider only yourself”.

“You imagine that live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue”.

“The gifts of the spirit do not appeal to the imagination”.

Be ready to discuss the following topics.

1) Religious upbringing at the school.

2) Why do married people hate each other after having been together for 20 years?

3) A right to happiness. What is the happiness?

Retell the chapter. Act out the dialogue between Mor and Bledyard.

Make up a short summary of the chapter in writing

Chapter 14